allergy

UPDATE:

clarinase failed me the second night. i was scratching everywhere, the breakouts are all over the place and i was seriously tired. i lost my appetite and i couldn’t sleep.

i managed to get some sleep after Subuh and woke up at 10 AM and made a mad dash to my favourite clinic. the doc prescribed me with prednisolone (a type of steroid) and loratadine (anti-histamine. clarinase contains the same amount of loratadine that the doc prescribed me). he also gave me a cleansing soap.

so far, Alhamdulillah, the drugs are working. i still get the itch at times, but the outbreaks are suppressed (they didn’t grew)

Alhamdulillah, praise to Allah.

for one who is a life-long allergy sufferer, i got to know the medicine and what it does.

allergy reactions are basically signs that your body is producing histamines when an allergen is introduced. so to stop the reactions, doc will usually prescribed anti-histamines drugs.

clarinase are often prescribed if you have a cold/flu since cold/flu are usually attributed to allergy reactions. it contains both loratadine (anti-histamine) and another drug that do something to your sinus (google please) to help with congested nose. and clarinase does not cause drowsiness.

i was expecting something stronger than loratadine but well, if it works, it works

prednisolone is a type of corticosteroid and one of its function is as an anti-inflammatory drugs. i guess this is the one that help surpressed the hives outbreaks.

i sometimes likes to learn about these type of drugs. hehe.

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i have skin allergies.

i’m allergic to soil – but only on my fingers. everytime i tended to my garden (a pot of tumeric plant, my garden nonetheless. tee hee hee), i’d end up having itchy fingers and it would later dry and then cracks, leaving a huge gash. every single time!

but i persevere, although it gets painful at times, but i’m not going to allow a simple allergy to stop me from doing what i like

i used to have quite severe skin allergies on both of my feet too. back when i was small, every visit to the beach will always end up with me heading to the clinic for my dose of potassium manganate solution. the purple solution we learned in chemistry mom was truly patience with me back then since we did quite a lot of outdoor activities.

i hah had boils on my toes. itchy, wet and painful when i had these attacks.

back in Langkawi, during a homeroom dinner at one of the beach, i accidentally stepped on a black’s ants nest. the resulting scratching caused me to have swollen leg (and nearly got an infection) and a few days in the hospital for ozone treatment.

these days, i no longer have the allergy to beach sands (or whatever that triggers the allergy) but i still do have allergy to soils on my fingers, and funnily enough, they always attack my right index finger. hmm.

but.

i don’t have any allergy to food, unless if i have a wound somewhere, then it’ll be itchy but everyone is susceptible to it.

but today, oh, today.

i came back from a kenduri in Paya Jaras (a place i have heard but no idea where) feeling OK but a little bit too sleepy.

so, i slept. for 4 hours only to wake up with a very itchy foot. i did not put much stock into it. then i saw a few other areas where they looked like they were bitten by mosquitoes. and it was itchy as hell!

i did thought they were mosquito bites but when later i realised the sizes of them grew everytime i scratched them, they were not bites, they were hives!

it got real worse when i was having a bath (even with hot water and douse of diluted dettol). both my legs were so itchy and swollen after the scratching. i was so frustrated and wanted to cry because oh my god, the more i scratched, the bigger it got.

hive happens due to food or medicine allergy. and i hope it will only take a few hours to relieve itself because i read it can take hours to a few weeks for the body to get rid of the allergen. i cannot tolerate weeks of hives attack! i’ll die of scratching

so, i had a dose of clarinase (antihistamine) and we’ll see whether it’ll help with the itchiness.

if it gets worse tomorrow, i’ll get myself an antihistamine shot.

*hives are also called kaligata or gegata in our language.

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